July 04: Feedback from newspaper readers

July 03, 2013

Scamming seniors

Janet: Thank you so much for the article in Sunday's paper in the business section about medical alert scam targeting seniors. I don't know what we're going to do about this. I myself have received about 12 of these calls. They come from all over – they come from Alexandria; they come from Lynchburg – and they always make you think someone has ordered this for you. It is a scam and I've tried to talk to some of these dear elderly people. Something should be done about this. I thank you so much for putting this in the paper. I hope maybe you'll look into it a little more.

Editor: Thanks for the suggestion. We will look into it further.

Boating safety

Brian, Hampton: You had a story about the boating safety course deadline in Friday's paper (6/ 28). All you give are computer addresses. Many people out there do not use computers. I'm one of them. Why don't you give the phone number? It's 1-804-367-1000. That will give you the people that handle that boating safety for the state and they can set you up with an appointment.

Editor: We should have included the phone number. Thanks for the reminder, Brian.

Disaster ready?

Claude, Williamsburg: The lead story on the front page (6/20) was "Responders ready for nuclear disaster". I'm really glad people are taking the time to get the training and learning all they can about what to do and I'm sure these are intelligent people having good training. To say they'll be ready for a nuclear disaster, that's too far our and not a good claim. Enjoyed the article, it was fine.

Today's feedback responses were written by Communities Editor Cindy Laraway.